Froothie Optimum 9200 Blender

I actually have a new beast in my kitchen. He's the Optimum 9200 Next Generation. He's even more powerful than the Optimum 9400. If you can believe that?

Have a look at this comparison with the Vitamix Pro 500. It's quite something. I always thought the Vitamix was a powerful beast, but I had to think again.

The 9200 Next Gen is also much cheaper than the Vitamix and on sale just now with a price tag of £329 (that's £100 off).

It may seem like a big price ticket, but it's worth every penny. I use mine every day. My dishwasher is the only kitchen gadget I use more and my beast (blender) doesn't even need to go in the dishwasher as he's self-cleaning.

A difference between the 9200 next gen and the 9400 (which I've been using up until now) is the 9200 has a programmable timer and it's really easy to use too.

All it has is 3 speeds, 3 times and a pulse button. You can choose a speed and blend for as long as need to, select one of the time buttons or use the pulse button for short bursts.

SLOW Speed: To chop or juice. Always switch to slow speed when adding food or liquid during blending.

MEDIUM Speed: Good for harder to blend mixtures and to avoid the contents heating.

FAST Speed: Use this to grind grains, chop ice and blend frozen fruit as well as whole fruit and vegetables.

What can you make in a power blender?

This is what you can make in a power blender

Smoothies

Shakes

Soup

Sauces

Purees

Dips

Spreads

Cocktails

Frozen cocktails

Ice cream

Slushies

Nut milk

Peanut butter

Nut butters

Homemade nutella

Cake batter

Bread dough

Pizza dough

Falafel

Burgers

You can also chop fruit and veg.

Have I missed anything?

Oh yes, it makes amazing jam and curd. No standing over a pot stirring, just pop the ingredients in, turn it on, walk away and let it do the business.

March 18, 2015

A fruity green smoothie made chocolaty with the addition of organic cacao powder. Sinfully healthy!

Ingredients

4 ripe pears

1 ripe avocado

150g blueberries

1 generous handful kale

2 tbsp organic cacao powder

2 tbsp flaxseeds (linseeds)

2 tsp baobab powder

2 tsp wheatgrass powder

top up to 3/4 full with water

a tray of ice

Instructions

1. Core the pears, leave the skin on, pop in the blender.2. Remove the flesh from the avocado and add to the blender.3. Add the kale, blueberries and powders. 4. Top the blender jug with water until it's 3/4 full.5. Add the ice and blend until smooth. I used the 30 second timer on my 9200, Don't add ice if you don't have a power blender like mine, it could burn out the motor.6. Pour and enjoy!

Disclosure: I was sent the 9200 to review. If one is bought through my affiliate link I will gain a commission. I was not expected to write a positive review and any opinions expressed are my own. I truly do love these blenders. Move over Vitamix, the big boys are in town!

39 comments

Wow! This smoothie is great! What a wonderful combination of ingredients. I would never have been brave enough to put all of these individually delicious ingredients into one smoothie but I am so glad you did because now I know I HAVE to try this!!

I absolutely love your smoothie recipe, and definitely will try it! the oOtimum sounds great too; can't beat 6 blades- so much quicker and easier. We are still delighted with our bargain Omniblend and use it 3-4 times a day. My husband saw a row of them in Costa the other day, so they must be quite hard wearing. sorry I didn't do a fridge pic- I've been ill. Is it too late to take one, blog it and link to your post?

This is BETTER than a Vitamix?!? o_0We're gearing up to get serious with the 5:2; I've lost almost two stone on my own, but Somebody needs the extra support of a partner, so we're thinking smoothies for breakfast on the fast days, and we're looking for a really good machine and doing the boring research bits before we splash out on it. Got to see if I can find and price out one of these...

I like how you camouflaged all greens in this chocolate smoothie. I could probably even trick my girls with this recipe! And sprinkles on top make it soooo pretty. I have similar blender from different brand but is not powerful at all, I really need to look into buying one of those Froothies ;)

Lush smoothie and photos Jacs.I really do like the sound of the Froothie and like you I'm sure I'd use it every day if I had one. I've a round birthday at the end of the year so maybe I should put this on my wish list:-) I have some of that baobab powder and keep meaning to make a smoothie with it, thanks for the inspiration:-)

Hmmmmm now you are asking Sue. It's a long time since I used a Vitamix. They are all pretty noisy, but the Optimum range are much more powerful, so you don't thave them running for as long, which I suppose cuts down on the length of time they are being noisy for. I'm not really bothered by it. Hope that helps.

I love reading comments, so thank you for taking the time to leave one. Unfortunately, I'm bombarded with spam, so I've turned on comment moderation. I'll publish your comments as soon as I can and respond to them. Don't panic, they will disappear when you hit publish. Jac x